Reminds Me of HP ~ Silas Marner

[rattlesnakeroot]

From Chapter One of Silas Marner by George Eliot.

It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience, but for the villagers near whom he had come to settle it

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[bluestockingbb]

I had to read this in high school. I didn't like it too much.

[rattlesnakeroot]

I actually love it - and I can't even quite explain it. I love the whole thing about the snooty Godfreys wanting to take away his daughter but she won't go. I also love the fact that he still feels guilty over what happened when he was young, but when he takes his daughter back to find the old church, the place is gone and wiped off the face of the earth symbolizing his complete redemption.

[snapes_witch]

There should be a law against forcing 15/16 yr olds to read Silas Marner! lol I read it again after I'd grown up and found it to be a terrific story; might even read it again.

[lemon_ashwinder]

Sigh, I loved this book!